Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital (S’áxt’ Hít)

Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital (MEH) provides 25-bed acute care, critical care, obstetrics, surgery, and perioperative care to the community. There are approximately 24 providers. The hospital serves as a regional hospital, open to everyone in Sitka and Southeast Alaska.

The hospital includes a Labor & Delivery unit and a full-time Obstetrics/Gynecology provider. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans that produce detailed images of inside the body and 3D Mammography are available at MEH. Numerous specialty clinics are offered at the hospital that are not accessible in the smaller communities such as neurology, orthopedic, dermatology, ophthalmology, and denture clinic. MEH also provides outpatient primary care services.

At MEH and the primary care clinics throughout Southeast Alaska, SEARHC offers services that meet established national standards of excellence as demonstrated in accreditation reviews by The Joint Commission on accreditation of health care organizations.

MEH provides Expressly For You-Personal Service Dining℠ program. It is an innovative concept of meal order and delivery for hospital patients and is based on the long-standing practice of fresh food and personal service.